Walmart eBooks offers in-store and online customers digital access to a library of more than 6 million titles on mobile and Kobo ereaders. Or sign up for its audiobook subscription service. I'm ...

It looks like Walmart is ramping up its efforts to take on Amazon. In partnership with Kobo, the company has announced a new ebook store called Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo. The new service brings ...

Most Walmart stores have modest book sections, but now the company plans to expand that with digital books. Walmart announced that it’s teamed up with Japan’s Rakuten to sell e-books, audiobooks, and ...

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Canada-based e-book retailer Rakuten Kobo has a long history of partnering with retailers, including, since 2012, ABA stores. But Kobo and Walmart’s recently announced partnership takes the strategy ...

The only meaningful competition in the United States is Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Amazon sells their Kindles primarily online and people find it hard to get any hands on experience, before they buy ...

Walmart signed an agreement with Rakuten Kobo earlier this year to sell e-readers and ebooks online and carry a number of electronic readers in their retail locations in the United States. Walmart has ...

Later this year, you'll be able to buy ebooks and audiobooks straight from Walmart's website. The big box retailer has teamed up with Japanese e-commerce titan Rakuten to launch a business that can ...

Walmart has struck a deal with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten that will see the US company become the exclusive mass retailer of Kobo e-readers. Co-branded Walmart and Kobo apps will be released ...

Launching a partnership announced earlier this year, Walmart and e-book retailer Rakuten Kobo detailed plans to offer an array of e-book content, reading services and devices via Walmart stores and ...

Kobo's newest e-reader is going after fans of Amazon's Kindle Oasis. The new Kobo Forma is the company's most expensive and comprehensive e-reader yet, coming in at $279 and featuring a waterproof ...